[Linganth] Prop 58

[Netta Avineri]

For those who haven't seen it yet check out the piece that a few of us from the language & social justice task group co-authored on the topic:
"Save CA Residents From A Language Drought: Vote 'Yes' This Fall"
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/11387726

Also the FB group for Californians Together, the main group spearheading the Prop. 58 efforts:
https://m.facebook.com/CaliforniansTogether/

I have copied on this message Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, Executive Director of Californians Together, who can share more about what would be useful for students to help with at this stage. You can also request from them brochures in English and Spanish as well as buttons.

Ana Celia Zentella has been making phone calls for the efforts, in particular with Spanish-speaking households. She and Stephen Krashen among others have written responses to articles about the subject. Ted Everhart is researching the language activism around Prop. 58 (and a student of mine plans to help him). Nelson Flores wrote a great piece recently about it: 
http://www.c-sail.org/resources/blog/california-ready-tear-down-barriers-bilingual-education

Lots of opeds and articles lately in the LA Times, SD Union Tribune, and other national outlets (and even international - I saw it in the Economist recently). So important for us to get the word out in as many ways as possible that bilingual education is vital and important!

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Grace Reynolds <gr3ck at virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
> Likely already on your radar, but Woolard has a great 1989 piece up this general alley:
> 
> Woolard, Kathryn A. "Sentences in the language prison: The rhetorical structuring of an American language policy debate." American Ethnologist16, no. 2 (1989): 268-278.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Sarah Benor <sbenor.huc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Do people who teach in California have any suggestions for teaching
>> surrounding Proposition 58? This statewide proposition allows for
>> dual-language immersion programs, reversing Proposition 227 from 1998,
>> which eliminated most bilingual education in the state. I'm trying to
>> decide how to deal with this in my class "Language, Race, and Identity
>> in the United States Today" at USC. I'm considering either an in-class
>> debate or a service learning project where students would write op-eds
>> about it.
>> 
>> Here's more info about the proposition:
>> http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Sarah Bunin Benor
>> Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
>> Hebrew Union College
>> University of Southern California
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